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The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago, Milwaukee and the World's Columbian Exposition

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY AND PORTRAIT GALLERY.
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successfully developing this branch of business in the United States. In the summer of 1888 he went to Europe on a pleasure and business trip, visiting England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Ger¬ many and Austria. While abroad he received an invitation to address the British Medical Society, an honor which no other tradesman has ever been accorded by that august body. He has traveled extensively in his own country, and made several trips to the Pacific slope.
Mr. Truax is a member of many secret socie¬ ties, but takes particular pride in masonry. He was made a Master Mason in Mt. Herman Lodge, No. 263, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1881, and was honored by being elected Senior Warden within eight months after his initiation; exalted to the Royal Arch degree in 1882, in Trowell Chapter, No. 49, and created a Knight Templar in 1883 in Apollo Commandery, No. 26, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is at present a member of Evanston Commandery, No. 49, and also a noble of the Mystic Shrine. As founder of Ravens¬ wood Lodge, Chicago, No. "JJJ, in 1886, he was W. M. for three years. Mr. Truax is also a mem¬ ber of the American Pharmaceutical Society. He is considerable of a sportsman, his favorite sport being brook trout fishing. He has made such a remarkable record during the past three years that a leading railroad corporation has had it printed in circulars for distribution, as an adver¬ tisement among the sportsmen of the Northwest. He attends the Universalist church, and in poli¬ tics has always been a Republican. None of the family, however, have had political aspirations.
He was married February 6, 1876, to Miss Mary Wolff, the daughter of Mr. P. A. Wolff, of Maquoketa, Iowa, a prominent Democratic politi¬ cian. He has been unusually happy in his domestic life, and is the happy father of three beautiful children, viz.: Edith, Ruth and Carl.
Mr. Truax is a man of much ingenuity, having invented many valuable improvements in surgical instruments. He has delivered addresses before the National Association of Railway Surgeons at Kansas City, Missouri, and at Buffalo, New York, and also before the Mississippi Valley Medical Society, at St. Louis, on amputations from the standpoint of a surgical instrument maker, and kindred topics.
His career has been eminently successful, and he has the proud satisfaction of knowing that it is attributable to his own energy, industry, per¬ severance and honorable dealing. He is the architect and builder of his own fortune. Com¬ mencing in business for himself in a small way, he has grown with it, and been from the start the inspiring, directing and controlling spirit at the helm. While he cannot be said to be exactly a self-made man, since his father is an educated physician, chemist and pharmacist, and the son had the advantage of parental tuition, yet he owes what he is to himself essentially, and is an example of manly independence and self-reliance.
Notwithstanding his success, while yet young, he has none of the pretense of a vain man and none of the hesitancy of a weak one, but moves about his business with the fullest consciousness of his ability to manage and conduct it in detail.
FRANK CATLIN GREENE, M.D.
CHICAGO, ILL.
THE subject of our sketch was born at Mans¬ field, Ohio, in the year 1857. He is de¬ scended from Britons, who immigrated to this country a century ago, and settled in New Bed¬ ford, Massachusetts. Dr. Greene's father, Mr. H. N. Greene, removed to Mansfield, Ohio, where he was for several years engaged in the jewelry busi¬ ness. In 1870 he removed to Philadelphia, where better facilities for business were offered, and was here engaged in banking until 1883, when he re¬
tired from business and traveled for several years until he located in Chicago in 1886. Mr. Greene was a prominent man in Mansfield, especially in religious circles. He was of the Episcopalian per¬ suasion, and was an earnest and zealous worker in the cause, holding high official positions in the church; he was also deeply interested in Sunday- school work, being at one time superintendent of a school in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Emma (Catlin) Greene, mother of Dr.

The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago, Milwaukee and the World's Columbian Exposition

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The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago, Milwaukee and the World's Columbian Exposition

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The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago, Milwaukee and the World's Columbian Exposition

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American Biographical Publishing Company

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This two-volume work from 1892 presents biographical sketches of residents of Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Chicago, Illinois and New York, New York

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American Biographical Publishing Company

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1892

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English

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago, Milwaukee and the World's Columbian Exposition

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American Biographical Publishing Company

Publication Date (Original)

1892

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org.

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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY AND PORTRAIT GALLERY.
259
successfully developing this branch of business in the United States. In the summer of 1888 he went to Europe on a pleasure and business trip, visiting England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Ger¬ many and Austria. While abroad he received an invitation to address the British Medical Society, an honor which no other tradesman has ever been accorded by that august body. He has traveled extensively in his own country, and made several trips to the Pacific slope.
Mr. Truax is a member of many secret socie¬ ties, but takes particular pride in masonry. He was made a Master Mason in Mt. Herman Lodge, No. 263, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1881, and was honored by being elected Senior Warden within eight months after his initiation; exalted to the Royal Arch degree in 1882, in Trowell Chapter, No. 49, and created a Knight Templar in 1883 in Apollo Commandery, No. 26, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is at present a member of Evanston Commandery, No. 49, and also a noble of the Mystic Shrine. As founder of Ravens¬ wood Lodge, Chicago, No. "JJJ, in 1886, he was W. M. for three years. Mr. Truax is also a mem¬ ber of the American Pharmaceutical Society. He is considerable of a sportsman, his favorite sport being brook trout fishing. He has made such a remarkable record during the past three years that a leading railroad corporation has had it printed in circulars for distribution, as an adver¬ tisement among the sportsmen of the Northwest. He attends the Universalist church, and in poli¬ tics has always been a Republican. None of the family, however, have had political aspirations.
He was married February 6, 1876, to Miss Mary Wolff, the daughter of Mr. P. A. Wolff, of Maquoketa, Iowa, a prominent Democratic politi¬ cian. He has been unusually happy in his domestic life, and is the happy father of three beautiful children, viz.: Edith, Ruth and Carl.
Mr. Truax is a man of much ingenuity, having invented many valuable improvements in surgical instruments. He has delivered addresses before the National Association of Railway Surgeons at Kansas City, Missouri, and at Buffalo, New York, and also before the Mississippi Valley Medical Society, at St. Louis, on amputations from the standpoint of a surgical instrument maker, and kindred topics.
His career has been eminently successful, and he has the proud satisfaction of knowing that it is attributable to his own energy, industry, per¬ severance and honorable dealing. He is the architect and builder of his own fortune. Com¬ mencing in business for himself in a small way, he has grown with it, and been from the start the inspiring, directing and controlling spirit at the helm. While he cannot be said to be exactly a self-made man, since his father is an educated physician, chemist and pharmacist, and the son had the advantage of parental tuition, yet he owes what he is to himself essentially, and is an example of manly independence and self-reliance.
Notwithstanding his success, while yet young, he has none of the pretense of a vain man and none of the hesitancy of a weak one, but moves about his business with the fullest consciousness of his ability to manage and conduct it in detail.
FRANK CATLIN GREENE, M.D.
CHICAGO, ILL.
THE subject of our sketch was born at Mans¬ field, Ohio, in the year 1857. He is de¬ scended from Britons, who immigrated to this country a century ago, and settled in New Bed¬ ford, Massachusetts. Dr. Greene's father, Mr. H. N. Greene, removed to Mansfield, Ohio, where he was for several years engaged in the jewelry busi¬ ness. In 1870 he removed to Philadelphia, where better facilities for business were offered, and was here engaged in banking until 1883, when he re¬
tired from business and traveled for several years until he located in Chicago in 1886. Mr. Greene was a prominent man in Mansfield, especially in religious circles. He was of the Episcopalian per¬ suasion, and was an earnest and zealous worker in the cause, holding high official positions in the church; he was also deeply interested in Sunday- school work, being at one time superintendent of a school in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Emma (Catlin) Greene, mother of Dr.